PLUS (MT)

Wild Kratts"Fireflies"
It's time for the annual Wild Kratt Firefly picnic. Martin and Chris head off into the forest to find some fireflies to join in the fun, but fashion designer, Donita Donata, has been capturing all the fireflies to use in the making of a sparkly, one-of-a-kind dress. The Wild Kratts team has to save the firefly population! Science Concepts: Bioluminescence, Cold light. D

3:00 pm

Dialogue for Kids"Predators"
Joan Cartan-Hansen and her guest scientists will answer questions about predators. Cartan-Hansen will be joined by Gregg Losinski, Regional Conservation Educator, and Jon Rachael, State Wildlife Manager, both from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.G

3:30 pm

Piano Guy
Host Scott Houston and guests show viewers how to play Michel Legrand's "Watch What Happens" and the signature lick from Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage." Featured guests include Bobby Floyd, Andy LaVerne and Bradley Sowash. D

4:00 pm

The Desert Speaks"Goat Packing in the Red Desert"
Natural historian and eccentric scientist John Mionczynski (also known as "Mr. Red Desert") "invented" goat packing nearly 30 years ago in the high and cold Red Desert of Southwest Wyoming. He guides host David Yetman on a journey through the "heart" of the desert - the Honeycomb Buttes, which boast extremely colorful honeycomb rock formations. Along the way, they get to know their four-legged companions and experience the adventures involved in goat packing, including searching for wild cilantro, onion and garlic in the desert and using the excretion from ants as salad dressing. D

4:30 pm

Outdoor Idaho"Winter Grit"
Adventure and grit tie together this collection of cold-weather activities captured on camera across Idaho. From extreme back-country skiing and avalanche assessment, to equestrian skijoring, ice climbing and heli-skiing, everything requires extra grit as well as specialized skills and a desire for adventure.G

NOVA"Extreme Cave Diving"
Cave diver and environmental anthropologist Kenny Broad heads an interdisciplinary team of climatologists, paleontologists and anthropologists into underwater caves, or blue holes, formed during the last ice age. Broad is investigating the hidden history of Earth's climate as revealed by finds in this "alternate universe."G

7:00 pm

Designing Healthy Communities"Retrofitting Suburbia"
In this first episode, physician Richard Jackson investigates the link between our nation's obesity and the Type 2 diabetes epidemic with urban sprawl fueled by car dependency. Part 1 of 4G

8:00 pm

Scientific American Frontiers"Chimps R Us"
An episode devoted to our closest cousins, chimpanzees, with whom we share 98% or our genetic material. This episode tells stories on the social life of chimps, on their thinking abilities, and on their very human sense of self-awareness. Also, Alan Alda meets Jane Goodall, who pioneered studies of chimps in the field and now devotes her energies to conservation in the wild, and to the establishment of sanctuaries for chimps discarded as pets and from medical research. D

9:00 pm

History of Science"What Is The World Made of?"
Michael Mosley demonstrates how the modern human society is built on the search to find the answer to what makes up everything in the material world. The story moves from the secret labs of the alchemists and their search for gold to the creation of the world's first synthetic dye - mauve - and on to the invention of the transistor.G

10:00 pm

NOVA"Extreme Cave Diving"
Cave diver and environmental anthropologist Kenny Broad heads an interdisciplinary team of climatologists, paleontologists and anthropologists into underwater caves, or blue holes, formed during the last ice age. Broad is investigating the hidden history of Earth's climate as revealed by finds in this "alternate universe."G

11:00 pm

Designing Healthy Communities"Retrofitting Suburbia"
In this first episode, physician Richard Jackson investigates the link between our nation's obesity and the Type 2 diabetes epidemic with urban sprawl fueled by car dependency. Part 1 of 4G